Since most people associate October with spooky animals, like spiders and bats, the Piney Woods Wildlife Society will be talking Bats of East Texas for the program on October 18. Are bats blind? How much does a bat weigh? Why are bats good for the environment? Bat biology and behavior of the eleven species found... Read More →

Ross Winton, conservation entomologist at TX Parks & Wildlife will advise on maintaining safe spaces for our important native plant pollinators to grow and reproduce.

Learn more about some of the conservation priority pollinators of the Texas Gulf Coast and the native plants on which they rely while also exploring what you can do to help their populations. Ross Winton is the Invertebrate Biologist for Texas Parks and Wildlife. His current work is focused on implementing conservation actions for Texas’... Read More →

This talk describes the remarkable range of strategies devised by countless fungi to entrap or hunt prey, whether that be micro-animals, arthropods, bacteria, or even other fungi. You'll hear how serendipitous work by farmers and mycologists led to the discovery of new nematode-trapping mushrooms, and the implications this predation has for the evolution of fungi... Read More →